a brief scientific history of deamons. Binyavanga Wainaina on the scientific history of African deamons Image by Ivan Forde When the internet arrived, the homosexuality deamon went digital, and was able to climb into optic fibers. Homosexuality deamon learns fast. Full of…

From Pambazuka News, “Museveni and reconstruction of homophobic colonial legacy in Africa: Which way progressives?” Horace Campbell on the passing of ‘legizlations of hate” in Uganda and Nigeria exposes the historical roots of right wing American Christian fundamentalists which goes…

The Rabid Virus 1 It is a global epidemic Somehow causing fitful laughter Mainly causing fearful slaughter In the selfsame flock Fearful but if you said as Much it’s enough excuse They set children they’ve “Dog train,” kids on you….

“Gays in Africa Need Our Support” by Melanie Judge, calls on the South African government to produce a counter narrative to the “homosexuality is unAfrican” being peddled by religious and cultural fundamentalists across the continent. Certain groups are creating opportunities…

From The Feminist Wire, an excellent article by Adejoke Tugbiyele “Sexual Identity and Nigerian Culture” which examines the challenges presented by the recently signed Same Sex Marriage Bill and the resulting explosion of homophobic violence across the country. “I spent…

Speaking out against homophobia across the African region, award-wining Beninoise singer and activist Angelique Kidjo – watch it here: As she says, speaking to the ab(use) of religion – “”its not about God its about power”.

vy Kombo began her career in music in 1993. Her albums ‘Mufudzi Wangu’ ‘My shephered’ -1993, ‘Ndinokudai Jesu’ ‘I love you Jesus’-1994, ‘Vimbai naJehovah’ “Trust in the Lord’- 1995, ‘Kutenda’ ‘Faith’ -1996, ‘Revival Songs’-1997, and ‘Ndaidziwanepi Nyasha’ ‘From where would I receive such grace’ -1998 made her into a household name. In 2000 she released the album ‘Nyengetera’ ‘Pray’. Her collaborations with the South African outfit that included Vuyo Mokoena, Zodwa and others produced the hit album ‘Nguva yakwana’ “The time is now.’ She then released other albums carrying the hit song ‘Handidzokere Shure’ literally translated ‘I will never go back’ but meaning ” I will never regress.” In 2002 she received a National Art Merit Award (NAMA) for Best Selling Gospel Artiste.

On May 17th I attended a public gathering of LGBTI activists and friends in a downtown hotel in Port-au-Prince as part of a weekend of IDAHO events. There were workshops, testimonies song and dance and a short play demonstrating street…

This year promises, or threatens, to be equally busy. This week, leading Cameroonian LGBT rights activist Eric Ohena Lembembe was found tortured and murdered. These are urgent times in Cameroon, as noted today at Africa Is a Country, and Alice Nkom, as ever, is in the thick of the urgencies.

The evangelical churches responsible for driving homophobia in Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia and the USA have begun a campaign of violence and hate in Haiti. On Friday, an all faith coalition of homophobic haters called [The Haitian Coalition of Religious and…

insinuates that Africans learnt homosexuality from Europeans (and/or Arabs), I do not go to my happy place where only thoughts of first love and first kisses rule. Rather I think about waking up in the dead of the night to a ghostly white female figure hovering over my bed. The white woman that all African lesbians, bisexual women and women

The Democratic Left Front (DLF) expresses its full solidarity with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and inter-sexed people in South Africa. We can no longer keep silent about the alarming increase in the numbers of LGBTI people who are victimised daily…

Jon Qwelane who published the article “Call me names but gay is NOT OK” in the South African Sunday Sun in July 2008 has been convicted of hate speech by the Johannesburg Equality Court. The article by Jon Qwelane —…

Ugandan writer and poet, Musa Okwonga adds music and video to his poem “My Love Against Homophobia” “My Love (for Eudy Simelane)” To some people My love is somewhat alien; When he comes up, they start subject-changing, and In some…

The following piece was written by Cheryl Roberts on the Sparkling Women Facebook page – This is the kind of piece that should be written and to which I was referring to my post from yesterday “Telling other people’s stories” ….

So familiar – two friends / lovers leaning on each other, one reading, one sleeping – how ordinary is that? Very – but from the online reactions the ease and ordinariness of their friendship is their greatest offense – Rod…

Two excellent articles by Keguro Macharia [Gukira]. The First was published on Kenya Imagine and is a response to an article on homophobia in Africa by Madeline Bunting in which she attempts to explain “African Homophobia”.. Keguro’s criticism first points…